UK KFA Hails DPRK Nuclear Fusion Success

The UK Korean Friendship Association salutes the massive scienfitic breakthough made by scientists in the Democratic Peoples Republic ofKorea.Using Korean made self reliant technology they succeeded in creating a nuclear fusion reaction thus opening up the potenial for limitless and self sustaining supplies of cheap energy.Only the self reliant socialist DPRKhas succeeded in this task.
UK KFA congratulates the DPRK scientists as well as theparty and state leadership on this momentous occasion.

UK KFA May 13th.

DPRK Succeeds in Nuclear Fusion

DPRK Succeeds in Nuclear Fusion

Pyongyang, May 12 (KCNA) -- Scientists of the DPRK succeeded in nuclear fusion reaction on the significant occasion of the Day of the Sun this year, according to Rodong Sinmun Wednesday. It goes on: The successful nuclear fusion marks a great event that demonstrated the rapidly developing cutting-edge science and technology of the DPRK. The nuclear fusion technology is called "artificial solar" technology as it represents a field of the latest science and technology for the development of new energy desired by humankind. The nuclear fusion technology for obtaining safe and environment-friendly new energy the source of which is abundant draws great attention of world science at present. Scientists of the DPRK have worked hard to develop nuclear fusion technology their own way. They solved a great many scientific and technological problems entirely by their own efforts without the slightest hesitation and vacillation even under the conditions where everything was in short supply and there were a lot of difficulties, thus succeeding in nuclear fusion reaction at last. In this course, Korean style thermo-nuclear reaction devices were designed and manufactured, basic researches into nuclear fusion reaction completed and strong scientific and technological forces built to perfect the thermo-nuclear technology by their own efforts. The successful nuclear fusion in the DPRK made a definite breakthrough toward the development of new energy and opened up a new phase in the nation's development of the latest science and technology.

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Extracts from the Work "Our Socialism Centred On the Popular Masses Shall Not Perish " by Leader Kim Jong Il

Socialism in our country is the socialism of our own style; it is the application of the great Juche idea and is centred upon the popular masses.

The great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung, in founding the Juche idea many years ago, reflected the aspirations of the masses and the requirements of the times. He has thus provided our age, the age of independence, with a new guiding ideology


Our socialism for the masses meets the aspirations and desires of the working class most thoroughly. The Juche idea is the revolutionary ideology of the working class, and it represents the desires of the working class. It identifies the working class as the core of the driving force of the revolution. The working class embodies in itself at the highest level man’s intrinsic desire to live and develop independently and creatively. It requires that man leads an independent and creative life, free from all manner of enslavement and bondage. It has the historical mission of emancipating not only itself but all the members of society from every form of enslavement and bondage and bringing complete independence to the popular masses.



The members of a social collective are bound together by both the interests of the collective and those of individuals. The manner of combining these two categories of interests is an important factor that determines the progressive character of the social system. A capitalist society is ruled by egoism which sets the interests of the community against those of individuals and places the interests of individuals above those of the community. Egoism inevitably results in social inequality and “an increasing imbalance between rich and poor”, and it produces conflicting relations among people. Egoism conflicts with the intrinsic nature of man as a social being. Because he is a social being capable of shaping his destiny only within the social community, man has an intrinsic need for collectivism. The Juche idea has made clear that the masses, and not an individual, are the driving force of the revolution and that collectivism, and not egoism, is an intrinsic requirement of man. The basic requirement of collectivism is that the interests of the collective should be placed above those of individuals, that the two types of interests should be harmonized and that the interests of individuals should be realized through the realization of those of the collective. That which is contrary to collectivism is not the individual interests themselves but egoism which seeks to satisfy only individual interests at the expense of collective interests. In our socialist society, which is the application of the man-centred Juche idea, the interests of every individual are respected, and the maximum social benefits and consideration are accorded to every member of the society, on the basis of protecting the interests of the collective thoroughly, and the relationship of the unity and cooperation of the whole society is fully mature.


Socialism is a cause for the popular masses, and socialism and the interests of the masses can never be separated. In order to safeguard the interests of the masses, we must be faithful to the cause of socialism, and in order to champion the cause of socialism, we must thoroughly safeguard the interests of the masses. The aspirations and demands of the popular masses are the criterion for judging the truth of all social phenomena and the guide to all revolutionary activities. In future, too, we must at all times attach prime importance to the interests of the masses in the revolution and construction and deal with everything to meet them. We must firmly maintain the principle of thoroughly defending the fundamental interests of the popular masses and meeting their immediate interests by closely combining the two.


Because it has adhered to the Juche stand in the revolution and construction, our Party has been able to uphold the dignity of the nation and revolutionary principles under all circumstances, however complicated, and firmly carry forward the cause of socialism. The prevailing complex situation requires that we should maintain the Juche stand still more firmly in the revolution and construction. With the imperialists and reactionaries resorting to vicious anti-socialist manoeuvres and directing the spearhead of their attack at those countries which maintain revolutionary principles, we must adhere to the Juche stand in the revolution and construction more firmly than ever before. We must be fully aware that adhering to this stand is vital to the destiny of the country and the nation, and consistently implement the Party’s line and policy of independence, solving all problems to suit the situation in our country by drawing on the creativity of our people.

Juche- Orientated Socialist Democracy versus anti- popular bourgeois democracy

After the boredom of the UK general election it is worth reflecting on the reactionary nature of bourgeois democracy and the superiority of the Juche based peoples democracy in the DPRK. Indeed we have the farcical situation where you the possiblity of the winning party forming the government but it has in reality won less than a third of the votes of the total electorate.In the DPRK the government is elected with 100 % support. Bourgeois democracy is simply based on money,whichever party has the most money wins the elections.All the main parties represent the interests of the monopoly captialists and capitalist rulers.Alejandro Cao De Benos KFA president wrote in his book "Korea the Songun Citadel" that in the DPRK you will not find one ballot tainted with money .Indeed bourgeois democracy has become so corrupt.Not only does money determine the outcome but the members of parliament have their snouts in the trough of parliamentary expenses and seek to make the maximum amount of money through their office.In the DPRK deputies to Peoples Assemblies at all levels work hard for the people. Here are some excellent KCNA commentaries on the subject Rodong Sinmun on False and Reactionary Nature of Bourgeois Democracy Pyongyang, November 19 (KCNA) -- Democracy calls for shaping policies according to the intention of the broad popular masses, implementing them to serve their interests and substantially providing them with genuine freedom, rights and happy life. Such genuine democracy is socialist democracy, says Rodong Sinmun Sunday in a signed article. There can never be genuine democracy in the capitalist society where all the state power is in the hands of a few capitalists and it is based on individualism, the article says, and goes on: The popular masses cannot seize power and they are excluded from independent political activities and the state power is in the clutches of a handful capitalists. This is one of main reasons why there can never be genuine democracy in the capitalist society. Another reason why there can never be genuine democracy in the capitalist society is that this society is based on extreme individualism. Democracy claimed by the imperialists is sham democracy and it is no more than a camouflage to deceive the popular masses and cover the reactionary nature of bourgeois dictatorship and the unpopular nature of the capitalist system. Bourgeois democracy, so-called democracy in the capitalist society, provides freedom and rights to the privileged capitalists only and no rights and equality are given to the broad grassroots masses. This democracy, therefore, can not be called democracy in its true sense of the word. The false and reactionary nature of bourgeois democracy can be found in the socio-political lives of Americans. There are many youngsters roaming about to get food and homeless and unemployed people in the U.S. The freedom of speech and the freedom of the press in the U.S. where the reactionary American rulers loudly propagandized about the application of democracy are no more than bourgeois democracy, bogus democracy. Free election campaigns which the U.S. rulers advertise as model of democracy clearly prove the true nature of bourgeois democracy. They say equal opportunity and equal freedom and rights are provided to all people but, in fact, it is only a handful of privileged strata who benefit from them. Herein lies another reactionary nature of the bourgeois democracy. American-style "Democracy" Blasted Pyongyang, December 13 (KCNA) -- Whoever is truly concerned for the destiny of his own country and the nation and that of humankind should resolutely oppose and reject American-style "democracy", says Rodong Sinmun Tuesday in an editorial article. It stands out as an important issue related to the destinies of the country and the nation and humankind to clearly see through the reactionary nature and injustice of American-style "democracy" and resolutely stand against it, the article notes, and goes on: American-style "democracy" is unpopular "democracy" representing the interests of a tiny handful of big monopoly capitalists. It is nothing but a fig-leaf for hiding their political suppression of the popular masses and their dictatorial rule over them. This "democracy" is crudely violating people's political freedom and right by dictatorship disguised as "democracy". The state power is in the hands of a handful of big monopoly conglomerates, not in the hands of the people in the U.S. The U.S. is a tyrannical country and a dictatorial kingdom in which people's socio-political activities are brutally suppressed. The number of the agents enrolled for suppressing progressive ideology totals about 200,000 and that of violent organizations more than 21,000 in the U.S. This country that boasts the "Statue of Liberty" is being fascistized to be a military and police country serving monopoly conglomerates under the signboard of "democracy". American-style "democracy" represents the plutocracy which decides everything by dint of money provided by a handful of those conglomerates. It is neither the president nor Congress that rules the American society. It is money which actually rules the American society. Money and power decide the president and Congressmen. It is an undeniable stark fact in the U.S. that one can become president and ruling party leader only when one gets more financial assistance from monopoly capital. Money precisely means the national policy in the U.S. Bourgeois politicians in the U.S. are no more than political waiting maids or puppets manipulated by the monopoly capitalists. All laws and decisions are to serve their interests. Unpopular policies such as huge defense budget are shaped to give a windfall to them and the demand for it is met with the taxes collected from the toiling masses. This is the true picture of the U.S. policy. "Democracy", "equality" and "human rights" allegedly called for by American-style "democracy" are just aimed to provide freedom and right to the monopoly capitalists to let them suppress and exploit the popular masses as they please, gain profits and exercise influence. This democracy is a hypocritical one as it has reduced the people's desire and right to freedom and equality to a plaything of a few billionaires. Herein lies the unpopular nature of American-style "democracy." This democracy is inhuman and unethical one as it blocks the sound development of human beings. This is reactionary one because it beautifies the corrupt American lifestyle under the pretext of "freedom" and spreads animal-like "absolute freedom" and "equality" diametrically running counter to the intrinsic nature of man as a social being throughout the society in a bid to animalize him. U.S.-style "democracy" serves as a hotbed of creating animal-like lifestyle subject to a jungle law. The American society is reducing people into beasts and animal-like beings who do not stoop to any infamy to meet their own interests. Americans only think of themselves and the strong sacrifices the weak in pursuance of their own ease, pleasure and profits. U.S.-style democracy is like poison that degenerates people into the worst type. It is American-style "democracy" that has turned the U.S. into the world's kingpin of drug smuggling and a den of degenerates and gamblers under the motto of "absolute liberty." It encourages Americans in carnal instinct, sexual urge and corruption and irregularities under the signboard of "liberty." This is a crime against humanity as it benumbs people's consciousness of independence, corrupts them mentally and morally and reduces them to slaves obedient to the reactionary ruling system. U.S.-style "democracy" represents a criminal political mode of making people illiterates. Many Americans are being reduced to political illiterates who are utterly indifferent to their country and nation and society and the collective. All sorts of reactionary and corrupt ideologies and cultures flood the American society under the pretext of "freedom of thinking" and religious "freedom" and thus paralyze people's sound mentality. This democracy is also super-power-style "democracy" aimed to Americanize the world. The "spread of freedom and democracy" touted by the U.S. rulers is, in essence, aimed to realize their dominationist ambition to convert the world into a uni-polar world dominated by the U.S. This theory is gangster-like logic to Americanize the world by interfering in the internal affairs of other countries and nations. The U.S., styling itself a "judge of democracy" responsible for the practice of democracy in other countries, tries to interfere deep in the internal affairs of other countries in a bid to Americanize the social systems of those countries. The principle of democracy is of universal nature and it, therefore, does not allow the application of double standards. The U.S. divided the world into pro-U.S. countries and anti-U.S. ones to pull up those anti-U.S. countries over the lack of democracy without any justifiable reason. It has openly interfered in the internal affairs of progressive countries under such absurd pretexts as "election issue" "human rights issue" and "religious issue", taking a double-dealing attitude towards the issues to serve its own interests. It, at the same time, launched the offensive of "color revolution" against some countries, complaining about "retreat in democracy" and the like. U.S.-style "democracy" is a harsh policy for exterminating other nations as it is aimed at assimilating their peoples to Americans and thus Americanize the world. There can be no Americanization of the world in political, economic, cultural and all other aspects now that every country and nation is carving out its own destiny under its own system guided by its own ideology. This "democracy" serves as a lever for perpetrating open aggression and plunder of other countries in a bid to Americanize the world by force. The "war against terrorism" is a product of the U.S. imperialists' unilateral military high-handed policy and a new doctrine for aggression to spread the American-style "democracy" to other parts of the world. The U.S. launched the "war against terrorism" with the September 11 incident as a momentum. It has painted brigandish aggression of sovereign states as one for defending "democracy." The U.S. imperialists' "war against terrorism" is nothing but a slogan for aggression and plunder. The Iraqi war clearly proved that the U.S. imperialists are the most hideous war fanatics, man-killers and plunders who mercilessly violate the sovereign rights of independent states under the signboard of American-style "democracy" to meet their interests. The U.S. "war against terrorism" has become the root cause of human rights abuses, division of countries and ethnic and tribal conflicts. American-style "democracy" brings decline and ruin of countries and nations and mankind, not their progress. The U.S. is the empire of all evils as it threatens global peace and security. Nothing can cover up the reactionary nature, hypocrisy and injustice of American-style "democracy." The U.S. imperialists are working hard to spread its democracy to the DPRK. By spreading "democracy" they foolishly seek to realize the ambition for aggression which it has failed to do by force in the past. It has recently escalated the offensive of pressure upon the DPRK after enacting even the "North Korean Human Rights Act" aimed at a "regime change" in it. No matter how vociferously the U.S. imperialists may talk about the above-said "democracy" it will never work on the army and people of the DPRK. The Korean people have the most advantageous socialist democracy of their own style chosen by themselves. It is an unshakable will of the Workers' Party of Korea and the people of the DPRK to defend the people-centered "democracy" of Korean-style under the uplifted banner of Songun. American-style "democracy" is bound to go bankrupt due to its reactionary nature and injustice

UK KFA-THE TRUTH ABOUT SO CALLED DEFECTORS

THE TRUTH ABOUT "DEFECTORS"
In its anti DPRK propaganda the Western media like to use tales and stories from so called 'defectors' from the DPRK.In reality the typical 'defector'
from the DPRK is usually an official guilty of corruption or incompetence and flees to the south to avoid dismissal or demotion.To give some real
examples- in the mid 90s the Daesong Bank of the DPRK ,the leading foreign trade bank of the DPRK established a small office in London.One day one of
its 3 staff 'defected' to south Korea,he had embezzled £15 million of the bank's money(causing a great amount of damage to the external economy of
the DPRK).Needless to say the British authorities refused a request from the DPRK for him to extradited from south Korea to stand trial in London
for fraud.Another case was the infamous Hwang.A couple of us met this senile old cretin both in London and Pyongyang.We found him lacklustre in the
extreme and noticed he said odd things like praising the UK public transport system(!!!???).Hwang too had been secretly embezzling money from the
International Juche Foundation and had worked for south Korea as a double agent for at least 3 years.
We reproduce a commentary from the National Reconcilation Council of the DPRK below

NRC Accuses S. Korea of Using "North Defectors" for Smear Campaign
Pyongyang, March 23 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the National Reconciliation
Council (NRC) released the following statement Tuesday to denounce the
south Korean puppet conservative group for its recent frantic anti-DPRK
smear campaign:

The puppet conservative group, obsessed by an anti-DPRK confrontation
ruckus, is using even human scum including defectors to the south as a
shock brigade in escalating it only to be jeered by the public at home and
abroad.

The group whipped together such riff-raffs as defectors to the south,
calling them "future forces for unification". It is busy fabricating what
it called the "Alliance for the Movement of Free North", the "Solidarity
of NK Intellectuals" and other anti-DPRK plot-breeding organizations. It
is even contemplating organizing a preparatory committee for forming a
political party called the "Solidarity of Persons for Unification" and
letting its candidate to run for the elections to "local self-governing
bodies".

This group also drastically increased a budget for "assisting defectors
from the north" while cutting down a budget for cooperation with the DPRK
and set up "Hana centers" in more areas of south Korea as centers for
brainwashing "defectors from the north" and educating them in
conspiratorial plots against the DPRK. What is all the more disgusting is
that Hyon In Thaek, minister of "Unification", and other persons in
authority are paying visits to those who defected to the south to
"congratulate", "encourage" and "support" them.

In another development, the group even let "defectors from the north" to
conduct various forms of anti-DPRK smear campaigns such as "broadcasting
for reforms in the north", "broadcasting for leading the north to opening"
and "daily NK" in a bid to utter a spate of anti-DPRK vituperation. It
also made them visit puppet army units and even foreign countries so that
they might appear in "security lectures" and "seminars" and at
"interviews" to hurl mud at the DPRK. And it instigated them to scatter
leaflets, stage such foolish anti-DPRK charade as "opera" and "art
performances" and publication of novels and memoirs.

What should not be overlooked is that the puppet group has made no scruple
of hurting the supreme headquarters of the DPRK, not content with raising
a hue and cry over its situation while working with blood-shot eyes to spy
it with human scum involved.

High-ranking officials of the U.S. are inviting renegades and defectors to
the White House and Capitol Hill to award "prizes" to them. The anti-DPRK
human rights organizations in the U.S. are even providing strong financial
backing to the "defectors from the north" in their activities.

The same is the case with the Japanese reactionaries. They called on human
scum in south Korea or "invited" them to come to meet them and let the
official media echo their rhetoric.

Under the patronage of the puppet conservative group and the U.S. and
Japan, those who fled to south Korea and the U.S. are letting loose all
sorts of vituperation while taking an active part in the anti-DPRK smear
campaigns in a bid to get small rewards and prolong their dirty remaining
days.

By nature, what renegades and traitors utter is nothing but sheer
fabrication devoid of official credibility as it is designed to please
their patrons in an effort to prolong their dirty remaining days and no
one, therefore, will lend an ear to such rubbish.

It is as clear as a pikestaff that betes noires will make only
vituperation just as a crow will never be whiter for often washing.

The groundless mud-slinging made by those human scum who have become
living corpses as politicians censured by the people for their despicable
acts of treachery and those anti-DPRK plot breeders who rely on them only
betrays their wretched plight as betes noires.

The U.S. and the puppet group pretend to be considerate of the above-said
human scum under the signboard of "human rights," calling them "refugees"
but it is a well-known fact that those "defectors from the north" are
criminals who fled the DPRK after committing crimes and wicked traitors to
the nation and wretched betes noires who abandoned their families,
parents, brothers and sisters and friends in quest of their own comfort.

They once praised benevolent policies enforced under socialism such as
free education and free medical care but, finding it difficult to make a
living due to the desperate moves of enemies inside and outside south
Korea, they left the DPRK and their families in quest of their own luxury.
They, indeed, deserve the worst curse for having thrown away even an iota
of human conscience and morality.

Irony is that the puppet group and even the U.S. and the Japanese
reactionaries are finding themselves in such awkward position as to depend
on such human scum in their anti-DPRK smear campaigns. This reminds one of
a drowning man catching at a straw.

This only implies their bitter defeat in the confrontation with the DPRK.
It is needless to say that the more thoroughly the DPRK remains cleared of
such human rubbish as "defectors from the north," the more clean it will
become and stronger the single-minded unity of its people will get.

The puppet group and the U.S. and Japan should bear in mind that their
desperate moves to seduce, allure and abduct Koreans and abuse them for
smear propaganda campaign will bring them nothing but a miserable end as
they are bound to end up losing their face and inviting derision.

The council, upon authorization, seriously warns in the name of the DPRK
and the Korean nation that those dirty renegades and defectors will be
forced to stand stern trials by the nation before anybody else as they act
a shock brigade in carrying out the smear propaganda against the DPRK
after going to the fold of the enemies keen on doing harm to fellow
countrymen, forgetful of the care under which they were brought up and the
disturbers of their system and life.

The people of the DPRK and the entire Korean nation will never pardon
those wicked human scum busy carrying out the anti-DPRK scenarios worked
out by the puppet conservative group and the U.S. and Japanese
reactionaries and acting cat's paws of anti-reunification elements at home
and abroad.

KIM IL SUNG -ON THREE PRINCIPLES OF NATIONAL REUNIFICATION

KIM IL SUNG ON THE THREE PRINCIPLES OF NATIONAL REUNIFICATION Conversations with the South Korean Delegates to the High-Level Political Talks between North and South Korea May 3 and November 3, 1972 (Excerpts) 1. ON THE THREE PRINCIPLES OF NATIONAL REUNIFICATION I am glad to meet you today. I am highly delighted and also deeply moved that we, fellow countrymen, have met after a long separation because of the division of the nation. You say that you have come to discuss the question of national reunification in spite of everything. Your action is very courageous and daring. It is very gratifying that the south Korean authorities have decided to participate in north-south political talks and have sent you to represent them. We warmly welcome this step. In my speech of August 6 last year, I made it clear that we are ready to make contact with all political parties including the Democratic Republican Party, social organizations and individuals of south Korea at any time. A few days after my speech, the south Korean side responded, agreeing to hold north-south Red Cross talks. Thus began the preliminary talks between the Red Cross organizations of the north and the south, which led to the high-level north-south political discussion. The doors for contacts and dialogues have now been opened between the north and the south, which have stood alienated from each other for a long time and it has become possible for high-level representatives to meet and exchange views with an open mind. This is a tremendous step towards the solution of the reunification question. At present the whole nation desires the reunification of the country. Today nothing is more urgent for the Korean people than national reunification. If we fail to reunify the country as soon as possible and allow national division to continue, our nation may become a plaything of the great powers and be divided into two for ever. The most important factor which characterizes a nation is the community of language and culture. Even people of the same descent cannot be regarded as belonging to the same nation if they use different spoken and written languages and their cultures and customs differ. Now, because our country has been divided for a long time, the language, as well as the culture and way of life, is already changing in the north and the south. The longer the division of the nation, the greater the difference in the language and way of life will be. After liberation some people in the northern half of the country insisted that the Korean alphabet should be reformed. But I opposed it. If we carry out an alphabet reform when the country is not reunified, the Korean people will be divided in two for ever. So I told the linguists at the time that if ever al alphabet reform was to be introduced it should be after the reunification of the country, but never before reunification. If either side were to carry out an alphabet reform while the country is divided, the north and the south would come to use different letters. In that case, our nation would be divided into two nations once and for all. We cannot tolerate that the Korean nation should be split into two for ever. We should reunify the country as soon as possible and hand over a unified country to posterity. If we end national division and achieve reunification, our country can become a powerful state with a population of 50 million, a brilliant national culture, and a powerful national economy, which no one will dare provoke. In order to reunify the country, it is necessary to establish the fundamental principles correctly, which can provide the basis for the solution of the reunification question. This is most important. Only when there are fundamental principles agreed upon by the north and the south, can the two sides make joint efforts for reunification and successfully solve all problems concerning it. I believe that our reunification question should on all accounts be settled independently without foreign interference and peacefully on the principle of promoting great national unity. First, national reunification should be achieved independently without reliance on outside forces and free from their interference. Solving the reunification question independently on the principle of self-determination of the people is the principled stand which has always been maintained by the Government of our Republic. If we depend on outside forces we cannot solve this problem. The question of Korean reunification is entirely an internal affair of our country. If we try to solve this internal affair by relying on outside forces instead of settling it on our own, it is shameful for our nation. Some people are now trying to solve the reunification problem with guarantees afforded by big powers. This is a great mistake. The imperialist powers do not want to see our country reunified .By nature, they like division and attempt to divide other countries and peoples by all possible means, because it is difficult to rule them when they are united. Therefore, we should on no account rely on the great powers in settling the reunification question. If contacts are established and talks are held within our nation, we can remove distrust and misunderstanding and achieve national unity and reunification. Why then should we ask for the help of great powers? We should not tolerate foreign interference affairs of Korea under any circumstances. No foreign force has the right to meddle in Korean affairs, and while there is foreign interference the question of national reunification cannot be solved in keeping with the desire and interests of our nation. The reunification of the country should be achieved by the Korean people themselves free from any foreign interference. You say that the south Korean authorities are also opposed to foreign interference and intend to settle the question of national reunification independently without US and Japanese involvement, and pledge that you will never become a stooge of the United States or Japan. If this is true, it is excellent. If we are to reject foreign intervention and reunify the country independently, we must categorically oppose flunkeyism towards great powers. I always tell our officials that, if a man takes to flunkeyism, he will become a fool; if a nation falls into flunkeyism, the country will be ruined; and if a party adopted flunkeyism, it will make a mess of the revolution and construction. If a man wants to be an independent being, he must never adopt flunkeyism which means worshipping others blindly. As our country is geographically located in the midst of big countries, flunkeyism has played a great part in the history of our people. It hampered the advance of our people in building a new society after liberation. So we have fought tirelessly against it. Let me take an example from the days after liberation. Immediately after liberation there were quite a few people who had been affected with flunkeyism even amongst those who called themselves communists. In Seoul at that time, a fellow, Pak Hon Yong by name, claimed that he would make our country a member republic of another country. This had a very bad influence on the south Korean people and greatly hindered the settlement of the reunification question. On hearing his words, some people were afraid that our country was going to be subjugated again to a foreign country. In my speech before the people, therefore, I said that we would build a democratic society of a Korean type, not a Soviet or American type, in the interests of the Korean nation. When we advanced the policy of agricultural cooperativization in the postwar years, a number of people tried to discredit it. Some asked how we could cooperativize agriculture when our industry had been devastated, claiming that European countries with developed industries had not yet undertaken full-scale agricultural cooperativization. Since flunkeyists used to accept willingly what people from large countries said, I refuted their argument with the words of Lenin. Lenin had said that a communal economy established by a simple merger of peasants’ lands and farm implements would be superior to a private economy. So I said that our Party’s policy of agricultural cooperativization was in accord with Leninism and was to meet the requirement of our particular situation. I asked them how it could be that agricultural cooperativization after industrialization was the only correct way. In the end, they admitted that our view was correct. At that time, the circumstances of our peasants, in fact, were such that they were unable to survive unless they united their efforts through cooperativization. The war had devastated agriculture, and the peasants were short of draught cattle and farm implements. This was also true of rich farmers. In this context, we ensured that peasants organized cooperatives on the principle of voluntary membership and ran them by their united efforts. Basically, we Koreans like to pool our efforts and help one another. Traditionally, our people have good customs. For instance, if a neighbour has a wedding, the whole village offers the family contributions and various other kinds of aid, calling on them to congratulate them and pass a pleasant time with them. In the postwar years, there were not many modern farm machines in our country. But we were able to cooperativize agriculture rather smoothly in a short time because life itself urgently demanded it and the peasants supported the cooperative policy actively. In establishing economic relations with other countries, we have thoroughly rejected flunkeyist tendencies and held fast to an independent stand. We have not tolerated any relations which could result in our economic dependence on other countries. We have established and developed economic relations with them on the principle of defending the national economy thoroughly, on the principle of complete equality. In our trade with developed socialist countries, we have made sure that we give them raw materials they need only when they give us those which we need, and that we buy their machines only on condition that they buy ours. If this principle was not maintained in our economic relations with developed countries when our technology is not yet very highly developed, we would have to keep supplying raw materials to them and buying manufactured goods. This would end in leaving only empty mountains riddled with holes in our country. We cannot hand down such mountains to our posterity, can we? We worked hard not to be economically subordinated to another country, that is, to be self-supporting in the economy. If a people do not achieve economic independence through the building of an independent national economy, they cannot hope to raise the external authority of their country and to have a say in the international arena. Since we have pursued an independent policy in the sphere of economic construction and built an independent national economy, nobody dare apply pressure on us. In the past the worship of great powers was most obvious in the field of literature and the arts, and we waged a resolute fight against this. Some of the writers and artists worshipped European literature and art and produced works which were neither to the liking of the Koreans nor understandable to them. Once there were poets who worshipped Pushkin and musicians who adored Tchaikovsky. In creating an opera, these people patterned it on Italian ones. Flunkeyism was so rampant that some artists drew foreign landscapes instead of our beautiful mountains and rivers. During the Fatherland Liberation War I visited a hospital where I found a picture of a Siberian landscape. It showed a bear crawling about the snow-covered ground under a large tree. So, I severely criticized the people concerned. I told them, “There are many renowned mountains such as Mts. Kumgang and Myohyang. Why did you hang that kind of picture instead of a beautiful Korean landscape? What is the good of hanging such a picture in educating our people?” The Korean people have a brilliant culture and have lived in the beautiful land of three thousand ri for a long time. They will live in our beautiful homeland in the future, too. They cannot live in Siberia or in Europe. Therefore, our literature and art should, on all accounts, serve the education of our people in patriotic spirit. Internationalism cannot exist apart from patriotism. He who does not love his own country cannot be true to internationalism. Koreans do not like European artistic works. They do not want to see artistic works which are not to their liking. We do not need works which Koreans do not like and which are not congenial with their national feeling. That is why I defined literature and art of socialist realism as being national in form and socialist in content. We conducted the struggle against flunkeyism by means of ideological struggle, theoretical struggle to root out flunkeyist ideas which remained in the minds of people. Through many years of struggle against flunkeyism, we were able to eradicate it completely and hold fast to independence in all spheres of the revolution and construction. In our attempts to solve the question of national reunification, we must strongly oppose the tendency of flunkeyism to rely on foreigners, rather than believing in the strength of our own nation. We must reunify the country independently by the united efforts of the Korean nation. Secondly, great national unity should be promoted by transcending the differences in ideas, ideals and systems. The question of our country’s reunification is not one of who prevails over whom. It is one of attaining the unity of a nation which has been divided by an outside force and achieving national sovereignty. In order to reunify the country, therefore, it is essential to proceed from endeavours to achieve unity between the north and south and promote great national unity. In order to promote this, the north and the south must transcend their ideas and systems and refrain from pursuing hostile policies towards each other. At present different ideas and systems exist in the two parts of our country. In this situation, the north and the south should not try to impose their ideas and systems upon each other. We do not intend to impose the socialist system and communist ideology on south Korea. Neither should the south Korean authorities insist on “reunification by prevailing over communism” nor demand that we desist from communism. In other words, they should discard their “anti-communist” slogans. The north and the south should discard hostile policies which obstruct unity, and combine their efforts to find common ground. If each side does not endeavour to find common ground but opposes the other side and argues about things of the past in an attempt to justify itself, the gap between the two sides will grow wider and wider and the reunification of the country will be delayed still further. This would be a grave crime against the country and the nation. In our opinion, it is quite possible to find a common ground if the north and the south work together, basing themselves on a sincere desire for unity. We have worked hard to discover this common ground in order to hasten the country’s reunification. Recently, the south Korean authorities have been talking about “self-help”, “self-reliance” and “self-defence”. We consider that it is possible to find some common factors here. We think that their “self-help”, “self-reliance” and “self-defence” may have some points in common with the independent policies of our Party and the Government of the Republic. The country’s reunification will be hastened if the north and the south discover, one by one, what common grounds exist between them and achieve their unity on this basis. In achieving the great unity of the nation it is important to remove misunderstanding and mistrust between north and south. Our country has been divided for so long that there are a number of points on which the north and the south differ from each other and misunderstand and mistrust each other. As long as the two sides misunderstand and distrust each other, there cannot be genuine national unity. A family cannot be formed without deep trust between husband and wife. Even in the case of husband and wife, if they do not trust each other, they cannot live together and, in the long run, they will have to divorce. The north and the south should strive to eliminate mutual misunderstanding and mistrust. To this end, the authorities and many personages of the two parts of the country should make frequent contact with each other and hold dialogues in good faith. If they get together and discuss any matters frankly and seriously, misunderstanding will be removed and mutual trust will be deepened. Through our dialogue with you on this occasion, the misunderstanding between the north and the south has already been alleviated to a considerable extent. The dialogue between the north and the south should have been held earlier. We thought that the south Korean authorities were going to be lackeys of US imperialism and Japanese militarism and sell out the country. But you say that this will never be the case. You also say that the south Korean authorities will neither bring Japanese militarists into south Korea again nor sell out the country as the lackeys of the United States and Japan, and request us over and over again to believe it. So we can believe you and eliminate our past distrust. The south Korean authorities say that they have had the misconception that we are going to “invade the south” and “communize” south Korea. But we have no intention of doing these things. We have declared on many occasions that we have no intention of “invading the south”. We reaffirm this to you today. As for ”communization”, we do not intend to “communize” south Korea nor could it be “communized” even if we tried to. Therefore, I think that you can now dispel the misunderstanding you have had because of the alleged “invasion of the south” and “communization”. If we remove our misunderstanding and deepen trust through contacts and dialogues in this way, we shall be able to achieve great national unity regardless of the differences in idea and ideals, systems and religious beliefs. Another important factor in achieving great national unity is that the north and the south should refrain from abusing and slandering each other. To achieve unity and cooperation, both sides should respect each other rather than resort to abuse and slander. If they continue abusing and slandering each other as they do now, the north and the south will not get on close terms but, instead, the gap will widen. That is why they should first stop abusing and slandering each other. Achieving economic cooperation between the north and the south is also very important in attaining great national unity. The northern half of the Republic is rich in natural resources and has a developed heavy industry. South Korea has some foundations of light industry from the past. If the north and the south effect economic cooperation and meet each other’s needs, they will be better able to solve immediate economic problems, and develop the national economy rapidly by their own efforts without introducing foreign capital. If the national economy is developed through north-south cooperation, our nation will be better off than Japan or any other countries that are said to be developed. The north and the south should advance jointly in external relations, too. Only then will we be able to demonstrate the unity of our nation. We consider that the north and the south will be able to promote great national unity in spite of the differences in their ideas and systems, political views and religious beliefs, if they all take a patriotic attitude and stand for national reunification. At present, even those countries and nations which have different ideas and systems, are on friendly terms and get along well together. And there is no reason why the differences in ideas and systems should prevent our nation, which is of the same blood, from uniting and cooperating. Whether one believes in communism, nationalism or capitalism must not bean obstacle to great national unity. We are not opposed to the nationalists and capitalists in south Korea. The majority of the south Korean capitalists are national capitalists. We have been pursuing a policy of protecting national capitalists. For the sake of national reunification, we will unite and cooperate with the people of all backgrounds in south Korea including nationalists and national capitalists. Thirdly, national reunification should be achieved by peaceful means without resorting to arms. The north and the south, one and the same nation, must not fight against each other. We must reunify the divided country peacefully without fail. If peaceful reunification fails and another war breaks out in Korea, our nation will suffer catastrophes. At present the great powers of the world want to get on well with one another, refraining from quarrelling. Some time ago US President Nixon visited China and said that it would be desirable to abstain from quarrelling with each other and maintain peace for the space of one generation. After inspecting the Great Wall of China, he even said that no barrier should divide the people of the world. In the joint statement of China, the United States published as a result of Nixon’s visit to China, the United States approved the five principles of peace which it had so far refused to recognize. It is good that the United States approved these principles. Needless to say, we shall have to wait and see how the Americans will put their words into action. More often than not the imperialists go back on their words. So there is no knowing clearly if Nixon spoke sincerely or not in China. Commenting on Nixon’s trip to China, our Rodong Sinmun wrote. “If Nixon’s words uttered after inspecting the Great Wall are serious, why does he not make efforts to remove the Military Demarcation Line which runs across the central part of our country and to withdraw the US soldiers who are swaggering about, wearing steel-helmets with the inscribed “MP”?” I think this comment is valid. Nowadays, the big powers of the world are trying to abstain from quarrelling and get on harmoniously with one another. Then why should one and the same nation fall out with itself? As the same nation, we must not quarrel among ourselves. We must reunify the country by peaceful means. If the country is to be reunified peacefully without conflict between the north and the south, it is imperative, first of all, to reduce the armies of both sides. On several occasions, I have said in my open speeches that the armies of the north and the south ought to be reduced considerably. Reduction of the armies is the way to ease tension between the two sides and to lessen the military burdens. The present military burdens of the two sides are very heavy. We must work together to remove the Military Demarcation Line which divides our country into north and south. The danger of war cannot be removed in the present situation when large armed forces of both sides confront each other across the Military Demarcation Line. In such a situation, if the commander of a regiment or a division stationed in the area along this demarcation line opens fire by mistake at a place, both sides will begin to exchange fire, and this could lead to war. This is very dangerous. If in the future the north and the south give guarantees against the use of armed forces between them through sincere consultation, and put this into practice, their military equipment and personnel deployed in the areas on the Military Demarcation Line will become unnecessary and the line itself can be eliminated. At present, the north and the south say their armies are for self-defence. However, they should not undertake “self-defence” against each other. They must work together to defend themselves against foreign invasion. The defence of our Republic is always meant to oppose foreign aggression against our nation. We will never tolerate the aggression of outside forces against our country and people. When the US imperialists sent their armed spy ship Pueblo into the territorial waters of our Republic, the naval forces of our People’s Army captured it. This was a legitimate self-defence measure of our People’s Army whose mission is to defend their country. But instead of apologizing to us, the Americans threatened us by bringing large forces including the aircraft carrier Enterprise to the East Sea. It was a flagrant infringement of and a grave challenge to our nation’s sovereignty. We did not yield to the Americans’ threat and pressure. They attempted to start a war by mobilizing large forces, so we made a firm determination to fight against them. Seeing that we did not succumb to their threat and pressure, they desisted from starting a war and fled. Had they unleashed war at that time our nation would have gone through another war and the authorities of the north and the south could not have met and had a peaceful talk like this one today. If any foreigners invade our land in the future, the north and the south must unite and repulse the invaders. When all the Korean people unite their strength, they will certainly smash any aggressor. We must eliminate military confrontation and ease tension between the north and the south by our joint efforts, so that we can prevent another war in Korea and achieve the peaceful reunification of the country. Through the recent talks we have found important common grounds between the north and the south and reached an agreement regarding the most important problems. The three principles of realizing independent reunification without outside interference, achieving great national unity by transcending differences in ideas, ideals and systems, and reunifying the divided land by peaceful means without recourse to armed force, are the starting point of and the basis for the solution of our reunification question. You have agreed to solve the reunification question on the three principles, and you say the highest authorities of south Korea will also agree. So we can say we have reached complete agreement on the three principles of national reunification. I am very pleased that the three principles of national reunification have been agreed upon between the north and the south in our talks today. The three principles of national reunification upon which the north and the south agreed through joint consultation are absolutely fair principles which will enable our nation to solve the reunification question in conformity with its aspirations and demand. We must reunify our country on these three principles. You have pledged that you will take them as the basis for your future actions. If you do so, other problems concerning the solution of the reunification question can also be settled successfully and our nation’s reunification will be achieved at an early date. Now that the basic principles of reunification have been agreed upon, we must find concrete ways of putting them into effect to unite the whole nation and reunify our country. We must always proceed from the three principles in seeking concrete ways for national reunification. When the north and south consider the matter carefully and sincerely consult each other on the basis of the three principles of independence, great national unity and peaceful reunification, they will be able to find the successful path towards reunification. To find the reasonable way towards the independent and peaceful reunification of the country, we have to develop further political consultations between the north and the south and carry on contacts and dialogues more actively. I think that political consultations have already begun through the meetings and talks held on this occasion between the high-ranking representatives of the north and the south. North-south political consultations having been started, we must develop them so as to bear good fruit. You have come to Pyongyang first, so I should like to send our representatives to Seoul in return. I think that if mutual trust increases and various conditions mature in the process of frequent visits of representatives from the north and the south, summit talks will also become possible. In the future representatives of the north and the south must exchange frequent visits and hold a great many talks. The misunderstanding and distrust created between the north and the south during the nearly 30 year-long division after liberation cannot be eliminated through one or two contacts and dialogues. One or two meetings and consultations will not be enough to discover all the concrete ways for the solution of the reunification question. Through these talks we have solved fundamental problems upon which the north and the south misunderstood each other and have found important common grounds, but many problems are yet to be solved to reunify the country. These problems can be solved only through frequent contacts and sincere consultations between representatives of both sides. In the north-south negotiations and consultations, the points of mutual misunderstanding and all other problems concerning national reunification must be discussed. Any dissenting opinions must be aired frankly for discussion. If they are kept to oneself, the differences cannot be solved. Any misunderstanding, however insignificant, must be discussed openly and settled promptly. North-south negotiations must proceed from the principle of deepening mutual understanding, finding common points and increasing their unity. Our representatives and yours may advance different views in seeking the path to national reunification. So they may argue for the justness of their own views. But the arguments should always be intended for finding common grounds and achieving unity and reunification, not for division. I think it reasonable to organize and run a north-south joint commission or the like in order to coordinate north-south relations correctly and successfully solve various problems regarding the reunification of the country. Coordinating work should be conducted in practice by organizing a joint commission. If only general talks are held, great progress cannot be made in bringing about national unity and reunification. The joint commission can be co-chaired by persons in high authority appointed respectively by the authorities of the north and the south and be composed of the necessary members. It takes only a little time to fly between Pyongyang and Seoul. So the commission can be run by you coming over to Pyongyang and our people going to Seoul. Once the joint commission is formed, there will be many problems to be settled by it. It should quickly discuss and settle various problems arising from the relations between north and south, including the problem of one side refraining from slandering the other side and the problem of preventing military conflicts. At the joint commission one side should not force its will upon the other; problems raised should be discussed seriously until mutual understanding is reached to conform with the purpose of unity. A direct telephone line may be installed between Pyongyang and Seoul, by which to discuss problems at any time. If even a minor problem which may hamper national reunification or cause misunderstanding between both sides arises, it is necessary to deal with it at once by telephone, talk it over and settle it promptly. The three principles of national reunification agreed upon this time between north and south serve as a reunification programme to be put into effect jointly by the entire Korean nation. I think it a good idea to make these three principles public, so that the entire Korean people and the world’s people will know them. The publication of the three principles of national reunification is good both for the education of our people and for demonstrating the unity of the Korean nation to the world. If we publish the reunification programme agreed upon between north and south, all compatriots at home and abroad will have a consensus of opinion, being aware that we are going to reunify the divided country independently and peacefully on the principle of great national unity, and all sections of the people will derive great encouragement from it. When we publish the joint reunification programme of the nation, the world’s people will know that the Korean people are a great united people and the foreign forces opposed to our country’s reunification will clearly understand that they will never be able to divide the Korean nation permanently, however hard they may try. As for when and how we should publish the three principles of national reunification, it had better be discussed in the course of the forthcoming dialogue. I think it will do to publish it when an agreement is reached at another meeting of the delegates of both sides after the matter is taken up by the south Korean authorities upon your return to Seoul. Since you took the trouble to come to Pyongyang, you should stay another day and have talks with our officials. Your visiting us is a patriotic deed. Man should be a patriot, not a quisling. Man should do things which are beneficial to his country and people even if he lives for only a day. Only such a life is glorious and worthwhile. We can say that the current north-south talks were a success. I hope that you will come to Pyongyang frequently from now on.

UK KFA Statement in support of DPRK FM Memorandum on N issue

UK Korean Friendship Association

The UK Korean Friendship today issued a statement in support of the Memorandum on the Nuclear issue issued by the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea on the 21st of April 2010.
UK KFA strongly supports the memorandum of the DPRK Foreign Ministry.

It is the US that has caused the 'nuclear issue' on the Korean peninsula.The US is the largest possesor of nuclear weapons in the world and the only power to have actually used nuclear weapons.The US imperialists in total violation of the Korean Armstice Agreement of July 1953 shipped large quantities of nuclear weapons to south Korea making it a nuclear powderkeg.It also drew up plans on several occasion such as during the Korean War and also at the time of the 1976 Panmumjom incident to mount a tactical nuclear first strike against the DPRK.The US under the Bush administration designated the DPRK a target of a preempitve nuclear strike.
Given this it was only just that the DPRK should develop its own nuclear deterrent as independence and socialism cannot be defended by bare hands or by talking about 'peaceful co-existence'.Moreover it was a correct measure to defend its sovereignity that the DPRK withdrew from the one sided and unjust 'NPT' in 2003.

We support the just stand of the DPRK for the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula. This can only come about when the US signs a peace treaty with the DPRK.This would be a very big step forward in reducing tension on the Korean peninsula.The DPRK has the right to be treated as an equal partner in any negotiations whether they are bilateral or multi lateral.The US needs to recognise the reality that the DPRK is a nuclear power.

.The US must remove its nuclear weapons from Korea at once.It must take steps to remove the nuclear threat to the DPRK in a transperent and verfiable manner.The US should also withdraw its troops from the south of Korea.

The UK Korean Friendship Association supports the DPRK's invariable stand for peace and denuclearisation.


UK KFA London 3rd May 2010